Looking at the starkly poetic black-and-white images of Iranian photographer Hossein Zare is like entering another world. It's a minimalist world composed of simple black lines intersecting with quadrants of negative white space.

And it's a loosely populated world, sometimes occupied by a lone person walking stoically along. Or maybe there's a small flock of birds, or a lone tree, or some footprints. Maybe there's a road. It's a road you'll want to take or, perhaps, just gaze at so you can sense the exquisite loneliness Zare conjures in his powerful images.

It reminds us a lot of the black-and-white work of another artist we featured recently, Noell S. Oszvald, who is sort of a photographic soulmate of Zare's. See Oszvald's work here. See the rest of Zare's work below as well as at his 500px page and his Facebook page.